Be a vegetarian this Easter!

[Sriram]

Hi everyone,

Here are some vegetarian recipes for Easter...from BBC.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/vegetarian-easter-menu

Let the animals have a Happy Easter too!

Cheers.

Sriram

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[Robbie]

Recipes look delicious sririam! Bit late for me to start planning Easter menus now. Salmon & spinach fishcakes last night, have large gammon joint in oven right now & lamb for tomorrow or Monday,depending what we're doing. I do cook veggie sometimes though.

[Sriram]

Why???  Love and compassion, ad_orientem!  Jesus said that remember?!

[ippy]

The evidence shows that we humans are related to 'all' life forms, if you trace our history bsck far enough, so I suppose technically it's difficult to avoid eating our relatives.

ippy

[Robbie]

I've often considered being a vegetarian, would be if I was on my own (I think).

[Sriram]

I've often considered being a vegetarian, would be if I was on my own (I think).

Hi Robbie,

Vegetarian is the way to go. I am sure 50 years from today there will be many more vegetarians world wide than now.   

You don't have to become a complete vegetarian all at once. First restrict the types of meat you eat and the number of times a day. Then slowly cut it down further.

[Robbie]

Never eat meat more than once a day and often not at all, like vegetables & salad. This long weekend is an exception. A good vegeetarian diet is very healthy, what worries me is not being bothered to do it properly. I don't eat a lot as it is. I'll think about it next week.

I am sure 50 years from today there will be many more vegetarians world wide than now.  

You're right about that, I'm sure. There are more vegetarians now than ever, they're well catered for in restaurants & supermarkets. When I was a child vegetarians were considered difficult & odd!

[Harrowby Hall]

I expect that - in much less than 50 years time - the opposition to genetically modified organisms will have virtually disappeared and also that artificially produced meat which is indistinguishable from the natural product will be available. No doubt there will still be a demand for animal-sourced products but the protein requirement will be more readily met from vegetable resources. There will be a much smaller need to use cows (pigs, sheep etc) as the medium by which vegetation is transformed into human food. Please note - I am a carnivore (more accurately, omnivore)

One of the things which I always note when travelling across France is the huge area devoted to the production of animal feed compared with the small area actually used for stock farming. In a more rational system much of this land would devoted to crops which are consumed directly by people.

I was in the presence of a vegan a few weeks ago who went to great lengths to ensure he consumed no dairy products. It made me wonder whether or not devout vegan mothers breast feed their babies. Breat milk is an animal product.

[Sriram]

Never eat meat more than once a day and often not at all, like vegetables & salad. This long weekend is an exception. A good vegeetarian diet is very healthy, what worries me is not being bothered to do it properly. I don't eat a lot as it is. I'll think about it next week.

I am sure 50 years from today there will be many more vegetarians world wide than now.  

You're right about that, I'm sure. There are more vegetarians now than ever, they're well catered for in restaurants & supermarkets. When I was a child vegetarians were considered difficult & odd!

Yeah. We (my parents, sister and I) traveled through Europe in 1971.  The only vegetarian food we ever got was orange juice, bread butter and French fries (I bet they were fried in animal fat).  London was an exception where we found an Indian restaurant (run by Pakistani students funnily).  Oddly we also managed to get good Indian veg pulao and subji in one restaurant in Zurich.  Everywhere else they didn't even understand what we meant by vegetarian.

Now it is different. We went on a Europe tour last year and it was pure vegetarian Indian meals twice a day, all through Europe!!!  Great!

[Rhiannon]

I found the best way of going veggie is to cut out red meat, then chicken, and then fish. Going cold turkey (excuse the pun) doesn't work unless you already eat very little meat. Also think about how you will replace the meat. I use s lot of canned pulses in bolognese sauces and ragu.

For a Sunday roast I recommend Camembert in breadcrumbs (goes well with cranberry for Xmas) or a veggie pie.

Just to note, I don't care if other people eat meat or not.

[Robbie]

Neither do I! I've always liked roast lamb and lamb chops, hence the meat I have for tomorrow or Tuesday, but have liked it less recently.\

Chicken features frequntly in family meals.

Seriously thinking of going veggie.

[floo]

I have never liked lamb very much, we had it every Sunday lunchtime when I was a kid as it was my Father's favourite.

[Sriram]

Non veg Foods have a gradation..

Fish, Chicken, Lamb, beef, pork, sea food...prawns, lobsters etc....then the exotic foods...shark fin, octopus, ostrich neck, monkey brain...insects, lizards, cockroaches etc.

The idea is to move left.

[Robbie]

Shell fish and crustaceans a definite no-no for me! My parents (& others later), tried to persuade me how 'nice' such things were but I couldn't face even the thought of them. Apart from the cruelty involved (who says a lobster doesn't feel pain?), just didn't fancy them.

I'd put pork before beef, pork is considered a 'white' meat here. Beef difficult to digest.

My gammon joint looks good! Doubt I'll eat much of it tho'. It's big enough to last a week, I bought one too big so may put the lamb to one side, it's vacuum packed and eat by25th.

Lamb was always my favourite meat but recently I've enjoyed it less especially served with a selection of vegetables for some reason. The TV chefs often say, "Too much going on on the plate" and I understand what they mean now.

[Bubbles]

It's not very likely.

Have just caught 4 trout fly fishing.

 🎣

Later on in the year I start catching Mackrel from the shore, last year two of us caught 60 which we shared.
I'm still eating those

Sometimes we go out deep sea fishing on a boat and last year caught some Pollack. 🚣

Fish is good for you.

I have Duck for tea, with plum sauce 🙂 Which I will prepare once I've recovered from the fly fishing.

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Why???  Love and compassion, ad_orientem!  Jesus said that remember?!

Jesus ate the Passover lamb.

[BeRational]

If God did  other want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?

[Rhiannon]

People are made out of meat.

[BeRational]

People are made out of meat.

People are sometimes eaten as well.

I would eat people if I was hungry enough and you probably would too.

[Rhiannon]

People are sometimes eaten as well.

I would eat people if I was hungry enough and you probably would too.

I don't think Sriram will approve.

[Robbie]

"People who eat people are the luckiest people in the world", if I remember the song correctly.

[BeRational]

I don't think Sriram will approve.

Perhaps he would too if hungry enough!

[Sriram]

People are sometimes eaten as well.

I would eat people if I was hungry enough and you probably would too.

BeRational,

That is true only if ones animal instincts are very strong. The whole point of spirituality is to control and reduce them.

People have starved and not eaten meat, let along human flesh. Some people would rather starve than even steal food and eat, for that matter.  So, what you say does not apply to everyone.

[torridon]

Jesus ate the Passover lamb.

so he took a narrow reading of 'Thou shalt not kill'